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...Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...
...completed plane will be a wartime version of the Vought-Sikorsky 30-ton, four-engined air yachts now used by American Export Airlines to wing over the Atlantic. It will have a 125-foot wingspread, a huge payload, a 4,000-mile range. Parts and sub-assemblies (everything except the engines) will be made in existing Nash plants, put together in a great plant now abuilding in New Orleans...
Cautious Joe Hartson would not compare No. 170 with the Big, but he gave a few figures that were comparisons in themselves. She is precisely as powerful (8,000 h.p.). Her wingspread, a vast 200 feet, is 12 ft. less than Douglas' bomber. She is 117 feet long (132 for the 6-19). Newsmen estimated that the top of her tail was 30 feet off the floor, which would make it about ten feet short of B-IQ'S. Joe Hartson said 170 carried better than 10,000 gallons of gasoline (6-19 capacity, 11,000), but refused...
...California condor lives to be 100 years old, is the largest flying bird in the world (wingspread: eight to eleven feet). About 40 of these harmless, majestic scavengers remain in the mountain fastnesses of southern and central California. One reason for its decline: it gobbles poisoned carcasses set out for wolves and coyotes...
...With a wingspread of six to seven feet, the adult golden eagle is about the same size as the full-grown bald eagle (U. S. national emblem) but the golden eagle is fiercer and stronger. It preys mostly on small mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle's favorite food is fish. The Walkers took a baby golden eagle from an eyrie in California, christened him "Caesar," trained him to fly and return like a falcon. When Caesar was fully grown, they tested his capacity load...